TinySurveillance: An Extra Low-Power Event-Based Surveillance Method for UAVs
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Abstract
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have always been faced with power management challenges to extend their flight time. Managing power consumption becomes critical, especially in surveillance applications, where the longer flight time results in wider coverage and a cheaper solution. Most of the current studies show new methods for event detection without considering power consumption. This article presents an event-driven four-stage video surveillance pipeline with an efficient video transmission algorithm balancing power consumption and image quality. The surveillance starts automatically when the low-power AI-based onboard processor detects the desired event. When The edge node detects the defined event, a sample image is sent to the server for validation. After validation, a colored image accompanied byNgrayscale images are sent to the server. The server colorizes the grayscale images using a convolutional neural network trained by the colored images. In this work, an application of wildfire detection and surveillance has been implemented to show the proof of concept of the TinySurveillance method. The results show that the power consumption of the onboard processing unit in detection mode reduces by at least 4 times; during the surveillance mode, the data transmission rate can be decreased by almost 66% while achieving a competent image quality PSNRAvgof 41.35 dB, PSNR of 30.94 dB, and output frame rate of 5.2.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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